{"id":6346,"date":"2016-03-03T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2017-03-25T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T20:10:16","slug":"pro-lifers-vote-for-childkillers-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2016\/03\/pro-lifers-vote-for-childkillers-huh.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pro-Lifers&#8221; Vote for Childkillers? Huh?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Reductio ad Absurdum<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/572\/2016\/03\/Pro-Life20.jpg\" alt=\"Pro-Life20\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Life-size model of fetus at 8 weeks after conception. Brain waves begin at six weeks, and heartbeat at 18 days. Photograph by Bill Davenport: 4 March 2007<\/span> [<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lifesize8weekfetus.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0 <a class=\"extiw decorated-link\" title=\"w:en:Creative Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Creative_Commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creative Commons<\/a> <a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported<\/a> license]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">* * * * *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have a question for Catholic Democrats or \u201canti-Republicans\u201d: if a candidate made it clear that he hated black people, or Jews, or Arabs, or Catholics, or Muslims, or had neo-Nazi affiliations, would that be an automatic <em>dealbreaker<\/em> \/ <em>disqualifier<\/em>, in terms of voting for him or her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is a neo-Nazi or KKK or anti-Semite acceptable to vote for, provided they get <em>other<\/em> stuff right?\u00a0Say, Hitler got the economy or foreign affairs right: could a good Catholic or morally traditional non-Catholic Christian vote for him in good conscience? Sorry for using Hitler, but it just fits <em>so<\/em>\u00a0well, in terms of extreme exaggeration to make a point. But even Hitler is responsible for far less murders than the astronomical numbers of dead babies that are the result of the pro-aborts in our time. In terms of death and destruction of innocents (we\u2019re talking maybe half a <em>billion<\/em> dead babies by now), they make Hitler look like a harmless kitten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Note:\u00a0 In July 1932, Germany gave the Nazi party the leading number of seats, by vote. Hitler was the leader. Not much different from the British parliamentary system, looks like.\u00a0Being named Chancellor was later, but his party was initially<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">voted in by a democratic process<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We could use<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Duke\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Duke<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forget Hitler. Could a Catholic vote for him if he had a lot of great policies, while he also hates black people, Jews, etc.?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, the above, is what is called<\/span> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reductio_ad_absurdum\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reductio ad absurdum<\/a><\/em>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">or <em>argumentum ad absurdum<\/em>, in classical logic. It\u2019s designed to show (in this case,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/reasoning-analogy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">by analogy<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">), that one undesirable scenario \u2014 that the person being asked would certainly, or most likely <em>reject \u2014<\/em>, is not even as bad, by analogy, as a position that they <em>do<\/em> hold. Since the <em>hypothetical<\/em> analogous scenario is rejected, so should be their<em> real<\/em> preferred scenario. Thus, such an argument is designed to make a person holding a particular position uncomfortable, or \u201csquirm.\u201d And, this being the case, they often perceive it as a personal insult and attack, in our wonderful world today, where these sorts of arguments are about as foreign and remote to the average person (even a college-educated one) as Hieroglyphics or Sanskrit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, bigotry and hatred of ethnic or religious groups is not as <em>much<\/em> of a disqualifier as the far greater sin of advocacy of childkilling [aka, \u201cabortion\u201d]. So if one agreed that a person with such views<em> should not ever be voted for<\/em>, it would also follow that the childkilling advocate could not be voted for, <em>either<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To bring it down to brass tacks in this election season,\u00a0many Catholics and other pro-lifers\u00a0feel perfectly justified in voting for the socialist childkiller advocate Bernie Sanders (or for that matter, the childkilling advocate and quite-possible felon Hillary Clinton), <em>when<\/em> there is a pro-life alternative (Catholics are allowed to choose the lesser of two evils if those are the only choices available). But I highly doubt that the same people would vote for a\u00a0bigot and hater, neo-Nazi candidate, if there were a better alternative available. It all depends (for them) on what <em>else<\/em>\u00a0a candidate also believes, according to this mentality. If Sanders has great economic policies [choke!], then we can wink at the childkilling stuff, acceptance of euthanasia and assisted suicide, radical redefinition of marriage, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Voting for pro-aborts is what sustains the abortion holocaust. Period. No amount of rationalization can make it otherwise. It\u2019s because <em>good<\/em> people vote for those with evil policies, that the latter triumph and continue unabated for generations. We observe the pathetic spectacle of <em>pro-lifers<\/em> (!) voting for those whose views diametrically oppose them on that issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I made a public reply to a supporter of Bernie Sanders:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. If the reasoning is that in a Sanders vs. Trump scenario, we can oppose Trump because he is for waterboarding, which is said to be\u00a0intrinsically evil torture, this ignores the fact that waterboarding has not been definitively declared by the Church as torture. I oppose it as unnecessary and abusive, but I have not been convinced that it is torture, by the Church\u2019s criteria, nor on the basis of specific magisterial statements about waterboarding (which don\u2019t exist, as far as I know).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even if we grant that waterboarding is intrinsically evil torture, for the sake of argument, we know that all of <em>three<\/em>\u00a0people (all terrorists) were waterboarded during the Bush years. So the comparison is between that and some ten million babies being legally slaughtered and murdered during the same time. This is hardly an immoral equivalence or a scenario where it is morally superior to vote for Sanders the childkiller, as if he is <em>relatively<\/em> morally superior (i.e., the lesser of two evils).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. It is stated that Trump is pro-abortion, too. This is untrue. His stated position is that he is pro-life, including de-funding of Planned Parenthood (even though he thinks PP does some good things, too).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People doubt this because it would be a radical change of mind. Well, they should be aware that Ronald Reagan was also pro-choice, as recently as 13 years before he was elected President. In 1967 he signed a bill into law in California that legalized abortion. It is estimated that 200,000 legal abortions resulted: before Roe v. Wade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Elder Bush was also pro-choice not long before he became Vice President. I believe his wife still is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Conversely, President Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, and others used to be pro-life, yet no one questions that they are sincerely pro-aborts now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s all a moot point because Sanders is very unlikely to be the candidate, unless Billary is indicted or if the FBI at least recommends same. If Sanders is actually the candidate, he\u2019ll be defeated in a landslide: possibly an historic one. We\u2019re talking 46-47 states or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If Clinton or Sanders are elected, more babies will die. There is no doubt about that. They\u2019ll appoint ultra-liberal, pro-abort Justices to the Supreme Court, who will then uphold abortion \u201crights\u201d and restrict restrictions on abortion, which are the primary cause of the reduction in abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Catholic Democrats\u00a0can get as elaborate and legalistic as they\u00a0like (spin and fine-tune and rationalize and nuance it till kingdom come); the blood remains partially on their\u00a0hands if they\u00a0vote for people for national office who sanction childkilling. They\u00a0directly allow the holocaust to continue. Things will only change if Catholics and other pro-lifers start voting according to their stated positions, and never vote (<em>unless<\/em> faced with a terrible choice of two rabid pro-aborts: which scenario the Church recognizes) for those who advocate childkilling: by far the greatest and most diabolical evil and social issue of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reductio ad Absurdum Life-size model of fetus at 8 weeks after conception. Brain waves begin at six weeks, and heartbeat at 18 days. 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Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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